England's Hidden Reverse: Coil-Current 93-Nurse With Wound |
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| Title: | England's Hidden Reverse: Coil-Current 93-Nurse With Wound |
| Author: | David Keenan |
| Publisher: | SAF Publishing Ltd |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 01 November, 2002 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0946719403 / 9780946719402 |
| List Price: | $45.00 |
| Amazon Price: | $1,000.00 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
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Product Description
Birthed in the fall-out from legendary "Industrial" units Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, David Tibet’s Current 93, John Balance and Peter Christopherson’s Coil and Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound represent the real English underground in all its sexual, cultural, and artistic variety. An individually numbered limited edition, lavishly illustrated with photographs and original artworks, complete with previously unreleased CD, this volume will become a collector’s item.
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Customer Reviews:
• Essential Reading...
05 January, 2004
...for fans of C93, NWW, and/or Coil. But also for anyone interested in the postpunk, postindustrial explosion taking place in and around London in the early 1980s. Keenan painstakingly explores the collection of bands, performance artists, and various hangers-on in the wake of Throbbing Gristle's demise--the primordial soup that gave rise to Psychic TV, Whitehouse, Coil, Current 93, and others.Other reviewers have noted Keenan's disjointed time line and magazine-article approach (lots of extended quotes), and while these are valid criticisms, I thought Keenan did great research and footwork, tracking down a lot of the people involved with the "scene," both then and now. From Genesis P-Orridge and John Fothergill to Tony Wakeford and Nick Cave, Keenan gets a diverse group of people to talk about the "secret history" of this music, painting a vivid portrait of the obsessions, the madness, and the sheer creativity that spawned the incredible music these three groups made.I'm not a NWW or Coil fan (I bought the book largely because I love Current 93), but nevertheless I found myself interested in the other bands' stories, intertwined as they were in the development of C93. I still may not fully appreciate Steve Stapleton's surrealist music, but Keenan made me appreciate the mind and the creative approach behind NWW. Same with Coil, although I found myself less interested in their history, which seems to find them mostly wallowing in epic drug and alcohol binges.The book also features tons of great photos from past and present--these alone are almost worth the price.My only disappointment with "England's Hidden Reverse"--and it's a slight one--is Keenan's ultimate failure to get in touch with Death in June's Douglas Pearce, a key C93 collaborator and erstwhile friend of David Tibet. Keenan discloses that he tried to contact Pearce, but he never returned phone calls. Too bad--and very petty of Pearce, I thought. I would have liked a bit more illumination on just why Pearce's close friendship with Tibet fell apart. (Keenan attributes it to Pearce's objection to Tibet's association with the allegedly homophobic Tiny Tim, but that doesn't seem like it could be the only source of the extreme vitriol Pearce seems to have for Tibet nowadays, as evident on Death in June's "All Pigs Must Die" CD.)Still, "England's Hidden Reverse" is an invaluable book, and I couldn't put it down until I'd read it twice through. Congratulations to Mr. Keenan on a fine job.
- Amazon Customer Review
• The God's Got Three Faces Yet The Childs Got No Name
25 February, 2005
Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93 are musically manifestation of the same creative force. They are interdependent and each compliments the others. David Keenen describes this connection beautifully in this work. It begins by describing the musical scene out of which the bands all took their shape. In the strange days of the early eighties the post punk musical world was really going into several directions: oblivious pop, new wave pretension, industrial and Goth and finally bands like Current 93 Coil and NWW. These sounded more similar in there early days than they do now but still have the same vibe. What's most interesting about them is that they keep artistic focus and this book tells this story in a beautifully bound form.
The book uses a lot of quotes and pictures to tell the story of these bands using information from collaborators of the bands. It is very well researched and while many have said it reads like journalism it seems more like academia to me. The style is great and with so little actual documentation to work with quotes are one of the few viable options. It is really interesting to peer into the lives of these individuals and sometimes it is stranger than fiction: Tibet Balance Stapleton and Christofersen lead bizarre lives. This is a part of why they make such interesting work. It would have been more interesting to me if there was more said about the specific influences of the artists and the works. While we can infer much there could certainly be more here. Nevertheless what is written in this book is very enlightening to me. We as fans of the work often dissociate Coil and John Balance as a distant cousin to c93 and NWW but reading this really put the perspective in order. This book puts the artists in perspective so that even a non fan would find it interesting.
Overall I really appreciated reading this book. Being a huge fan of these bands I would be happy with anything and have often been placated by reading incomplete web pages and bad 'zine articles. This book is far better than that and really makes me appreciate the music all the more. It is by no means definitive and is missing many other bands (most notably Death In June). But I guess the book would loose focus if it were to contain more bands. This is a book that you will love to have and read again and again. Being fans of musicians that the mainstream media doesn't care about or cant understand we are thrilled to see stuff like this.
-- Ted Murena
- Amazon Customer Review
• Anybody Know What's Going On With This Edition?
23 March, 2008
I refuse to pay over $400 for a used hardback edition! These are 3 great "bands," but why do I suspect that this more affordable edition is being held back just to increase the collector's value of the hardbound edition? Collector scum really piss me off!
- Amazon Customer Review
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